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The Great Pyramid at Giza and Noah’s Ark: Are we coming closer to an understanding of the Ancient Mind? Part I

Two phenomena that have been haunting humanity for a long time are Noah’s Ark and the Great Pyramid of Giza. It has however rarely been suggested that these two are connected. One, the Ark, is part of the Biblical Flood Story and would by many be considered as merely mythological. The other, the Great Pyramid is probably the most impressive megalith on our planet, whose existence no one doubts. In this article I will argue that the Ark and the Great Pyramid are connected through the consciousness shifts, which gave rise to human civilization and history. To demonstrate this connection, I will base myself on the Mayan calendar but also on an interesting recent translation of a Dead Sea Scrolls pertaining to the Ark.

The idea that the rise of human civilization was caused by a shift in consciousness in the global mind is a central idea in my most recent book The Global Mind and the Rise of Civilization (Inner Traditions, 2016). This idea differs in significant regards from the other two chief ideas (outside of the mainstream) that seek to explain the rise of civilization, that is to say, Ancient Aliens and Atlantis. The ancient alien idea is that humans on this planet began to create civilizations at the instigation of extraterrestrials, who visited from distant stars and galaxies and shared their knowledge. The Atlantis, or “lost civilization” idea on the other hand is that there must have been a “lost” civilization much older than those we actually know of and that survivors from this civilization helped spawn the ones in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley that emerged about 5,000 years ago.

The third alternative – the one that I propose – is that civilizations arose on our planet because of precisely timed shifts in consciousness early on. This would immediately explain why the rise of civilization seems to have been such a sudden event with so few preceding forms. Egypt, for instance seems to have gone from the Stone Age to a sophisticated monarchy capable of erecting pyramids within the time span of only a few generations. If there was a collective consciousness shift, there would however be no reason to assume that this evolution would have to be a result of a slow and gradual process of learning. In my view, the most significant such shift took place as the global mind was activated at the beginning of the Mayan Long Count (or Sixth Wave) in 3115 BCE. As a result of this, the people in resonance with this global mind became endowed with the capabilities of creating civilizations.

The Mayan calendar is based on different time periods characterized by different spiritual qualities and when we go from one of these periods to another, a shift in consciousness takes place. Up until the year 2011 the Long Count wave consisted of thirteen so-called baktuns (time periods of 144,000 days or 394.3 common years), which shifted between seven peaks (or days) and six valleys (or nights). We can learn about historical events from the different consciousness shifts generated by this wave and especially from its very starting point.

The Downloading of the Human Mind and the Rise of Civilization

This Long Count was the calendar that the Maya used for dating all of their own pyramids and so it was very significant to them. I will argue that we have reasons to assume that its beginning in 3115 BC did mean a significant shift in consciousness and that the Maya had something to say about what this meant to the humans. Hence, the most pertinent inscription about this beginning is probably the one at the Tablet of the Cross in Palenque, which states that at the beginning of the Long Count: “the First Father erected the World Tree” so that “the light could enter.” “It was made proper, the Raised-up Sky-Place, the Eight-House-Partition, is its holy name, the House in the North .” From this, the beginning of the Mayan Long Count seems to have meant a metaphysical shift on a global scale brought about by the First Father (what we would call God), who erected the World Tree (what most cultures refer to as the Tree of Life) in the North.

At first this may sound cryptic, but not so if you place it in the context of Mayan and Aztec cosmology in which the world is often portrayed as an eight-partitioned cosmogram with the Tree of Life at its center (see Figure 1). What I believe the Maya in Palenque then were saying was that in 3115 BCE a global grid of eight directions was activated emanating from the North Pole (the Tree of Life). As human beings were in resonance with this Tree of Life and the eight partitioning this created, they were totally transformed by this and compelled to create civilizations. The activation of a grid of straight and perpendicular lines amounted to a very profound shift in consciousness, which for the first time endowing humans with a structured and rational, or if you like compartmentalized, mind, which allowed them to create civilizations.

Carl

Carl Johan Calleman is the author of five books based on the Mayan calendar that have been translated to fifteen languages and his known as the main proponent of the idea that the Mayan calendar reflects the evolution of consciousness... Read More

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The common thread to all of these mysteries is the fact that they are not myths and tetraploid humans were responsible for the Great Flood and building the Pyramids, as well as writing the Bible. Enlil, son of Anu, caused the flood which was local to the Black Sea. Noah only brought certain animals on board the Ark as not all perished. My book proves everything and shows that your government is part of the Great Deceivers, the Luciferians, not Satanists. They work with the Hidden Ones (Shining Ones who are tetraploid humans) also known as the Serpent People, the thirteenth and hidden astrological sign, the Serpent Bearer. The serpent in the Garden of Eden, Satan (Semjaza at that time), was actually one of these Serpent People, a tetraploid human and not an actual snake. They were the Rephaim classs giants mentioned in the Old Testament while Nephilim were sterile triploids, the result of “gods” mating with humans. If anybody tries to tell you different, they are liars. This is the truth.

Thankyou I have read Carl Callamen's other book, The Mayan calender's and the evolution of consciousness, which was wonderful and totally resonated with me. I have overlaid the astrological calendar onto the Mayan Calender's and got an even clearer picture of the evolution of consciousness on planet earth and the cycles of time and evolution and the spiritual lessons that are learnt in different ages. This was a lot of fun for me.

When is Ancient Origin's going to have Carl Calleman to do a monthly webinar. I would definitely find the time to tune into a webinar given by Carl Calleman.

Thank you starlady. I like the idea of a webinar through Ancient Origins. We are now in the era after the shift in the Mayan calendar and this has given a lot of new ideas as to what is happening not only in the past of humanity, but also in our current time where nine different waves are creating an interference pattern for evolution unlike at any previous time in history.

Ironicly the pyramids of the America's (Maya's and others) don't fit in your argumentation. They are at least some 1000 years younger than those of Sumer, Egypt and so on.
I think 'proximitiy' is much better as explanation: it takes only a couple days to get from Sumer to the Indus region. Especially if you take into account that the Sumerian coast extended much more southward in the days of Sumer! The same goes for Egypt: the distance between Egypt and Sumer is only a couple of weeks...

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